Wiki meme

Go to Wikipedia and do a search on your birth date, excluding year and then choose 3 neat facts, 2 births and 1 death.

Neat facts:
1888 - Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
1938 - The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
1967 - BBC Radio 1 is launched; the BBC's other national radio stations also adopt numeric names. Tony Blackburn presents the first show. (This was on my actual birthday *g*)

Births
1207 - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1273)
1947 - Marc Bolan, British musician (d. 1977)

Death
1955 - James Dean, American actor (automobile accident) (b. 1931)